March 30, 2017
The University of Sydney School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry announced the winners of the David Harold Tribe Philosophy Prize on March 3rd. We are pleased to announce that Colin Klein, author of What the Body Commands, was one of the joint winners.
March 29, 2017
We are pleased to announce that the Foundation of Landscape Studies has awarded the 2017 John Brinkerhoff Jackson Book Prize to several titles, including Ecologies of Power by Pierre Bélanger and Alexander Arroyo.
February 23, 2017
We are pleased to announce that The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism by Arun Sundararajan is a Bronze Medalist in the ‘Economics’ category of the 2017 Axiom Business Book Awards.
February 6, 2017
The PROSE Awards were announced live on Thursday, February 2nd, and we’re very pleased to announce that many of our books were category winners or received honorable mentions.
December 9, 2016
We are pleased to announce that Elizabeth Losh, author of The War on Learning, is receiving an honorable mention in the competition for this year’s Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize, sponsored by the Modern Language Association (MLA).
November 17, 2016
We are pleased to announce that Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade by Gabrielle Hecht is the winner of the 2016 Rachel Carson Prize! This esteemed award is sponsored by the Society for Social Studies of Science, also known as 4S.
October 24, 2016
This month MIT Press authors Bengt Holmström and Oliver Hart were award the Nobel Prize for their research in contract theory. In this post, economics acquisitions editor Emily Taber reflects on how their published works help make sense of our modern world.
October 19, 2016
We are pleased to announce that Boundary Objects and Beyond, edited by Geoffrey C. Bowker, Stefan Timmermans, Adele E. Clarke, and Ellen Balka, is the winner of the 2016 Best Information Science Book Award!
September 8, 2016
We are pleased to announce that the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) council has awarded the Amsterdamska award to Beyond Imported Magic: Essays on Science, Technology, and Society in Latin America edited by Eden Medina, Ivan da Costa Marques, and Christina Holmes.
August 26, 2016
We are pleased to announce that Whitney Phillips recently won the 2016 Nancy Baym Book Award for This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture.